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Director fined £30k after workers narrowly escape roof collapse
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Director fined £30k after workers narrowly escape roof collapse
‘Deceitful’ builder first to be fined under NZ’s new asbestos regulations
Asbestos
‘Deceitful’ builder first to be fined under NZ’s new asbestos regulations
£1m fine for nuclear weapons facility after electrician’s burns
Electricity
£1m fine for nuclear weapons facility after electrician’s burns

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Essex council faces prosecution over Legionnaires’ case

Tendring District Council is being prosecuted after a member of the public contracted Legionnaires’ disease at a leisure centre in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
Workplace transport
Scaffolding co fined for untrained forklift operator’s injuries

A scaffolding company must pay more than £50,000 after a workman sustained life-changing crush injuries when the forklift truck he was operating overturned, trapping him.
Safe systems of work
Judges throw out property developer’s gross negligence manslaughter appeal

The director of a housing development company who was jailed for manslaughter in June 2017 after a worker was crushed to death at a building site has failed to overturn his conviction.
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Driver safety special: A mounting concern
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Driver safety special: A mounting concern
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Workplace transport
Driver safety special: Marginal notes
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Driver safety special: Driven to change

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Influencing skills
Conversational gambits

Researchers have anatomised how practitioners can steer conversations to achieve behaviour change. 
Personal protective equipment
PPE for women
PPE special: Unready to wear

Why is so little PPE designed for female workers and what can employers do about it?
Personal protective equipment
Safety gloves
PPE special: Help at hand

Generic or inadequate safety glove specification can be worse than no provision.  
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Dr Shaun Davis, Global director, safety, health, wellbeing and sustainability, Royal Mail
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how stigma can be the worst aspect of mental ill health

Andrew Sharman CFIOSH
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why humility is a critical survival skill for OSH leaders

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Specialised HGV Training launches new convenient fee structure to counter UK’s 50,000 HGV driver shortage

Springing into action to solve the pressing issue of 50,000 HGV driver shortage that the UK is currently facing, London based HGV training centres Specialised HGV Training has recently launched a special promotion called the “Train Now, Pay Later” scheme. Through this promotion, customers will be able to pay only £10 to begin training immediately and pay nothing for the first 90 days. In these 90 days, Specialised HGV Training will ensure that the customer finishes training and is ready to work.
Skills
New accredited certificate and diploma qualifications for health and safety professionals

EEF, in partnership with the University of Portsmouth, have launched unique diploma and certificate qualifications to deliver professional development that is rooted in a real world business setting.
Road safety
Bringing down barriers to international trade

For two days, workplace safety innovators A-SAFE played host to their partner resellers from across the globe to give them a platform to share their experiences of selling A-SAFE's world-leading safety barriers.
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